Frequent Agile Questions
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What is a Scrum Master?
The scrum framework defines three roles and gives clear accountabilities to each, in order to simplify decision-making and ensure that things get done.
What is a Product Owner?
Fundamentally, the role exists to help represent the needs of both the business stakeholders and the users within a complex environment.
What is an agile coach?
Coaching is a profession that is more complex than it looks but provides huge value when done well.
What is an agile architect?
Agile architecture is largely defined by a subset of the 12 agile principles and hence this heavily influences the remit of a software architect.
What is a stakeholder?
If you are a stakeholder in something, you have an interest or concern in that thing and its continued success.
How many scrum teams per scrum master?
A team will always be better off with a dedicated, full time scrum master. A scrum master’s role is not about managing the Team.
What is servant leadership?
Servant leadership is the idea that the main goal of someone in a leadership position is to serve others.
What makes a good agile practitioner?
An agile practitioner is someone actively engaged in practicing agile techniques to help organisations respond to both continued and rapid change.
Can a Scrum Master also be a Line Manager?
Nothing in the Scrum Guide that says roles cannot combined. A scrum master would not be breaking any rules if they were a line manager.